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Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for Deaf People
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762226]
Identifier: MSS 16803
Content Description
This collection contains a single leather-bound illustrated manuscript for Deaf persons to confess their sins. They could identify their sins by the illustrations and ask to be absolved. Called a Confessory, it was made in Flanders or the Netherlands roughly between 1770 and 1790.No title or author is present on the binding or internal board pages. The book is composed of ninety-two leaves, with ten leaves left blank. It appears to be a model book, with two sets of drawings made...
Dates:
c.1770-1790
Manuscript leaf with a miniature of St. Margaret
Item — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1 [X031674500]
Identifier: MSS 16355
Scope and Contents
Leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours in Latin with a miniature of St. Margaret, France, late 15th century.
Dates:
circa 1450-1500
Medieval manuscript leaf
Collection — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1 [X031589475]
Identifier: MSS 16390
Scope and Contents Note
The medieval manuscript leaf (circa1300-1500; 0.03 cubic feet) the text is not identified. It may be from a martyrology. Contains a chapter concerning Pope Callixtus I. Later used in a bookbinding perhaps. The margins have been trimmed, dampstained. It is on vellum and is rubricated in red.
Dates:
circa 1300-1500
Missale Romanum frisket fragment
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16225
Scope and Contents
A portion of a manuscript on vellum. It was originally a leaf from a liturgical manuscript, likely written in France in the 15th century. The leaf was re-used in an edition of the Missale Romanum, liklely in France after 1582, which used red and black ink. The sheet (of which this is not the entire part) was used to mask the part of the former, which had been inked red, but which were not intended to be...
Dates:
approximately 1582
Margaret Tracy commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16713
Dates:
1860s